As part of my photography course, I have to track my development on a blog. The posts from September 2011 until January 2012 are part of a module called Project Management, for which I was required to work in a group of eight students to create an exhibition. The blog followed every step we took in order to create a successful gallery. The blog posts starting from September 2012 follow my final year on the course. I'll be documenting my research and analysis of my final year projects, as well as include notes of my Professional Practice unit - which prepares us for a range of post graduate options. Finally it also looks at a project called New Creatives, where I'll be working alongside an artists to help college students get more involved with art.

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Motion Blur Time Lapse Analysis

The reason I decided to put these scenes together is
because of the matching colours throughout the whole video. The video starts
off with quite a light scene, with a pastel blue, light brown, a bit of green,
and a pastel yellow. There is a dark line straight through the middle of the
photos. To me, this scene almost looks like fire. It is one of the most abstract
scenes in the video. The reason I decided to start off with this scene is
firstly because it’s from my first motion blur time lapse, so it’s keeping it
in order, but also because it’s completely unrecognisable. I want people to
guess what they’re looking at rather than knowing it straight away.

The second scene is quite a bit darker, but still very
obscure. The colours match with the darker colours from the initial scene. The
lines are completely straight, which relates back to the tree trunk in the middle
of the photo of the first scene. At some points you can see a bit more detail
towards the tops of the trees, but it’s so quick that doesn’t defeat the
abstraction.

The third scene is probably the most obvious scene. I’m
standing a bit further away from the trees, so the landscape is more apparent.
The tree on the left of the scene closest to the camera has the most detail.
The reason I added this scene is so it starts to indicate what you’re looking
at. Each photo is taken in such a similar way, that it almost looks as though
I’m taking a photo of a blurred scene, instead of blurring the scene myself.
What interests me about this scene is the fact that you can see the tops of the
trees moving in the wind – something that you would normally take a time lapse
of.

The colours in the fourth scene are similar to the ones
in the first scene. It’s got a very pastely green in it, and a bit of light
blue towards the top. In this scene there wasn’t any natural movement so I
stood close by a road. It was getting a bit darker at the time so cars started
to use their lights. This created interesting shapes within the time lapse and
would make the viewer think about what they’re looking at. Again, in every
scene so far, the trees have been completely vertical.

The fifth scene is a very interesting scene. This was
taken on a different day than all the previous scenes so far. It was a very
sunny day with cloudy intervals. This meant I could emphasize the natural
changes in the landscape within my time lapse. This scene shows the sun moving
through the clouds creating shadows, but also intricate shapes on the trees.
The colours are a lot more bold when it’s sunny, but in the shade they are
similar to the colours in the third scene. The blue at the top of the photos relate
back to the first and fourth scene. This scene is a sort of transition between
the start of the time lapse and the end of the time lapse. The first half is
all taken on cloudy days, whereas the second half is taken on sunny days.
Because this scene includes sun and shade, it was the perfect way to
transition.

The sixth scene reminds me a lot of the first scene. The
colours are very similar and composition of it is quite similar. The green bushes
towards the bottom of the shot keep getting hit with sunlight and then darkening
again when the sun disappears. It’s not as obvious as the previous shot, but creates
subtle changes.

The final scene is looking up. One of my original digital
photos was looking at the tops of the trees and it was one of my most popular photos,
therefore I decided to create a time lapse of that image. The colours are similar
to the previous scene, the first scene and the fourth scene. It’s very light, but
still has some darkness to it. I like the fact that in some of the photos the tops
of the trees are very obvious, whereas other photos are completely blurred. This
creates confusion.

I decided
to add Hans Zimmer’s “Time” song to it as it relates to my concept. The photos are
about movement and the juxtaposition between beauty and confusion. But the music
adds the sense of time to it. The images reflect on a journey, it’s me looking back
at my experience of having lived in all these countries.